By the eleventh century, sacred kingship within the west was separated from the hierarchies of church rule. Investiture battles and power struggles between the two systems continued on for many centuries […]

To their advises the disdaineful hart / Of this audacious youth beturning plies, […]

So one of the three, Badine, he said he had a badine with him that would wake all dead things. Even living things it would make die and then bring back with that badine.

“It’s night and day,” she said of the tightknit feel of the neighborhood then, compared with today.